The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-05
ENRICuING THE SOIL.
Valuable Suggestions Concerning
Correct Manurihg


Farmers in general distribute the
manure made in their barns and feed
ing-yards, over the ground they intend
to cultivate the year they draw it out,
or the next season if the work is done
in the fall. They dump it in piles,
from which it is afterwards spread, or
they scatter it from the end of the
wagon as they drive it out. If the field
to be fortified is large, and the amount
of manure made is small, the soil will
not be very greatly enriched. Of course
the manure will do good, but it will not
make a decided showing in the crop
produced on the ground. a light
manuring is very beneficial to land in
tended to produce clover, tame grass or
small grain. A large application of
manure, especially if II is unfermented,
viii produce q rank growth of
grass or forage crops, and may
cause them to lodge. a small appli-
cation of welI-rotted manure, con-
tinued year after year, will pre-
vent timothy and other grasses from
running out, but will not cause them
to make such luxuriant growth thas
the stalks will break down before the
wind. A small quantity of WELLER
mented manure pulVeriZed and scat
tered over pasture land is also product
i've of good results. 1t will be of the
greatest benefit if 1t is applied late in
the fall. The late rains will wash out
the soluble portions and carry them
down to the roots of the grass. The
other portions will remain on the sur
face, and afford some protection TO the
plants during the winter. 1t will not
cause the grass to grow very rank or to
have an unpleasant flavor as large ap-
plication of green manure will.
1t is well, however. to have one plat
of ground on the farm very highly ma
nured. Its size will depend on the num-
Der of acres in the farm and the use to
which it is to be put. This highly ma
nured plat should be devoted to the
protection of those crops that require
much labor. Many crops can not be
raised unless much labor is expended
on them, and this labor will not be suit
ably rewarded unless the land is very
rich. Cabbage, onions and beets
are valuable field crops, but their pro
duction calls for much labor. The more
highly the land is MANFRED, the larger
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same amount will be required on poor
as on rich land. Tomatoes, cucumbers,
melons and squashes, also need a very
rich soil. They are all gross feeders,
but as they do not start till the advent
of warm weather, and mature their
fruit before the weather becomes very
cool, their period of growth is short.
Lima beans, most kinds of bush beans,
and peas designed for the table, also re-
quire soil that has been made rich by
The application of fertilizers. Sweet
corn. to producs large ears, should be
planted on rich land. Persons who
have obtalnsG new varieties of potatoes
at considerable expense should plant
them on land where the yield will be as
large as possible. There is little danger
of making land too rich for these crops.
A market gardener wJuld not hesitate
to apply forty loads of stable manure
to an acre OF land before he planted his
first crop OF vegetables on it, and would
use half that amount each succeeding
year that he cultivated it.